On a Red Hat 9 system, I downloaded the python2.4-2.4.
1-1pydotorg.src.rpm and, following the web page ran "rpm --rebuild .
..". It went a long for a good long while with no apparent errors and 
then said:

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RPM build errors:
   File not found by glob: /var/tmp/python2.4-2.4.
1-root/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so*

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I looked in the directory and there is, in fact, no _tkinter.so file(s) 
there. 

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APOLOGIES: ADDITIONAL INFO FOLLOWS 
---Snip from rebuild output follows
In file included from
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/Python-2.4.1/Modules/_tkinter.c:67:
/usr/include/tk.h:83:29: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
In file included from
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/Python-2.4.1/Modules/_tkinter.c:67:
/usr/include/tk.h:581: parse error before "Bool"
/usr/include/tk.h:583: parse error before "event"
/usr/include/tk.h:584: parse error before "root"
/usr/include/tk.h:585: parse error before "subwindow"
/usr/include/tk.h:586: parse error before "time"
/usr/include/tk.h:586: `time' redeclared as different kind
of symbol
/usr/include/time.h:184: previous declaration of `time'
/usr/include/tk.h:591: parse error before "same_screen"
--- snip ends
many more "parse error lines occurred after this. I doubt
they're interesting .
A bit later, another group of failures begins
--Snip starts
In file included from /usr/include/tk.h:1361,
                 from
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/Python-2.4.1/Modules/_tkinter.c:67:
/usr/include/tkDecls.h:37: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/tkDecls.h:39: parse error before "Tk_3DBorderGC"
/usr/include/tkDecls.h:45: parse error before "Drawable"
/usr/include/tkDecls.h:50: parse error before "Drawable"
/usr/include/tkDecls.h:58: parse error before "XEvent"
--Snip ends
   Again, there are many more similar messages following
those and then:
--Snip starts
/usr/include/tkDecls.h:843: `GC' declared as function
returning a function
... [parse errors]
/usr/include/tkDecls.h:906: `Font' declared as function
returning a function
--Snip ends
There are many such embedded in that group. Then the
messages stop followed by a line that says: "running
build_scripts" ... and things proceed as if all was OK for
hundreds more lines of output before the failure copied into
the original report.

I captured the complete log and can upload it if needed on
request. I'd need to trim it and it doesn't look all that
interesting otherwise but then, what do I know :-)

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Ah, so it seems you are lacking the X11 header files. They
should have been installed as a dependency on the Tk
headers. So this is either a Redhat bug (for not including a
dependency of the -dev packages) or a local misconfiguration
of some kind (e.g. forcefully installing Tk headers without
all prerequisites present).

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I had a similar problem compiling python from source on a
(nominally) redhat8 system.  For whatever reason, X11
headers were not installed (probably because it's a server I
only use from an ssh console). YMMV

Try:
apt-get install XFree86-devel
or:
rpm -i XFree86-devel-<correct version for your dist>.rpm

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This looks like it is not Python's fault.

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